Letter to Friends

Young mothers and pregnant teenagers in very precarious living conditions avoid having to give up school thanks to the “Ajuda de Mãe” organisation (Help for Mum), a teaching and support project where participants also learn to abide by rules and acquire working habits.
This project is a partnership with a Lisbon secondary school, and...
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Haiti is a country where the majority of the population makes a living from farming. With soil erosion and climate change, the land is less and less productive and farmers are getting poorer and poorer. In response, a type of solidarity called Combite is practised.
Combite is a form of solidarity where a group of people decide to get together...
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In 2011 the Buenos Aires Food Bank, Argentina, started a new inter-agency programme called “Family time around the table“. The programme targeted the most excluded families, who we hadn’t been able to reach up until that point.
This proposal took two years of preparation because it was necessary to find a new way of working:...
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In Tanzania, a member of ATD Fourth World decided to experiment in a different way. When Reuben M. first left his village for the capital, he worked hard as a badly paid unskilled labourer, but he escaped this fate when he invented a lottery machine.
Although this earned him money, he didn’t think it was a good thing to make money off the...
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Bridging the Gap is a charity based in the Gorbals area of Glasgow with over 15 years experience of working with people from different backgrounds and cultures. They want to support families, create inclusive communities and inspire young people.
To give children the best possible start in life we support parents by providing places for their...
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The ‘Victory for rural women’ organisation in Tunisia works with rural women. Hayat, who is a member of this organisation, shared a life-story collected as part of a project which looked at these women’s lives. This is the life-story of a woman who lives in an isolated mountainous region where life is hard.
Hayat told us:...
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Rosário is a lawyer and uses all her skills to help people from very poor neighbourhoods and slums of Belo Horizonte. She fights against arbitrary evictions and the many forms of violence that they endure.
I walked down the street, under the balconies to shelter myself from the rain. He was there; every day I see him, I watch him. I admire him...
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In the heart of parents who live every day in conditions of exclusion and severe poverty, lies the hope for a world where each person has their place.
To create a future where suffering and constant deprivation will no longer exist, they devote themselves body and soul to their children's education, to make sure they do not abandon their...
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Action for a United World (Azione per un Mondo Unito - AMU) is an Italian NGO that runs development, training and education projects both in Italy and in developing countries. Founded in 1986, it is committed to sustainable cooperation by respecting the social, cultural, and economic local realities.
Action for a United World have started a new...
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The families directly hit by typhoon Haïyan, who are desperately searching for their loved ones and supporting each other in the struggle to resist giving up, remind us of all those whose lives are ceaselessly devastated and yet never lose hope.
Only recently I met some families in the Paris area who are worried because they are going to have to...
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